Places Daniel Savidge Wants to Go

Poland's oldest salt mine has nearly everything one needs to live underground forever.

An abandoned Jewish sanatorium is tucked within the woods of Poland.

Once a giant gingerbread factory, this space now hosts exhibits and workshops on the historic treat.

This 13th century Gothic brick castle is the largest in the world by surface area.

One of the world's largest collections of medieval religious art.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

A haunting deserted hotel is a favorite with artists and photographers.

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

These massive moving sand dunes have swallowed an entire village and are still on the run.

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

The final resting place of more than 200,000 people, this is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

A tea merchant built a dazzling Chinoiserie mansion in the 1890s to impress a Chinese ambassador

Dominating the skyline of Kaliningrad, the iconic House of Soviets has always been abandoned.

An iconic Russian watch brand inspired by Yuri Gagarin's trip to outer space.

A remote Arctic mountain range is home to "granite cities" found almost nowhere else.

Thermal springs at the bottom of this lake create beautiful blue circles of clay.

The last stop in southeast Russia.

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.